Transport and Structure: Their Competitive Role in Biophysics and Chemistry

by Muller, Stefan C.; Parisi, J.; Beiglbock, W.; Beig, R.; Ehlers, J.; Frisch, U.; Hepp, K.

• ISBN13: 9783540666325
• ISBN10: 354066632X
• Format: Hardcover
• Copyright: 1999-12-01
• Publisher: Springer Verlag

Summary

Covers a broad spectrum of complex phenomena in temporal and spatial self-organization. Presents the proceedings of four scientific meetings sponsored by the WE-Heraeus-Stiftung, Hanau, Germany organized to investigate pattern formation in dissipative continuous systems.

Table of Contents

Pattern Formation in the Developing Visual Cortex	1	(30)
S. Lowel
F. Wolf
The Molecular Motor Actin-Myosin on a Substrate	30	(16)
A. Ott
Force and Motion Generation of Molecular Motors: A Generic Description	46	(29)
F. Julicher
Reaction-Diffusion Waves of Reversible Actin Filament Assembly Drive Cell Oscillations and Locomotion	75	(18)
M. G. Vicker
Vesicle Dynamics in Chemotaxis, Haptotaxis, and Under Shear Flow	93	(44)
I. Cantat
C. Misbah
Chemotaxis and Aggregation in the Cellular Slime Mould	137	(14)
T. Hofer
Calcium Waves in Rat Cardiac Myocytes Underlie the Principles of Self-Organization in Excitable Media	151	(13)
M. Wubling
T. Mair
Inositol 1,4,5-trisphosphate Induced Calcium Waves	164	(27)
M. Falcke
Electrophoretic Mobility of Charged Spheres	191	(23)
T. Palberg
M. Evers
N. Garbow
D. Hessinger
Complex Fluids Under Shear: Block Copolymers	214	(17)
U. Wiesner
Coherent Intramolecular Dynamics in Populations of Allosteric Enzymes	231	(21)
P. Stange
A.S. Mikhailov
B. Hess
Routes to Chaos in the Peroxidase-Oxidase Reaction	252	(21)
M.J.B. Hauser
L.F. Olsen
Determination of Fokker-Planck Equations from Experimental Data Sets of Complex Systems	273	(9)
R. Friedrich
S. Siegert
J. Peinke
The Randomly Driven Ising Ferromagnet	282	(26)
J. Hausmann
P. Rujan
Wave Propagation in Excitable Media with Fast Inhibitor Diffusion	308	(18)
V.S. Zykov
A.S. Mikhailov
S.C. Muller
Mechanisms of Spiral Breakup in Chemical and Biological Reaction-Diffusion Models	326	(23)
M. Bar
M. Falcke
M. Or-Guil
Experimental Realization and Control of Chemical Turing-Like Patterns	349	(18)
M. Watzl
F. Fecher
A.F. Munster
Reaction-Diffusion Patterns: From Observations in Halogene Chemistry to a Test for Implication in Mitosis	367
E. Dulos
A. Hunding
J. Boissonade
P. DeKepper